Category: Competition Enforcement
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Korea’s antitrust watchdog issues GenAI competition report, mulls merger control regime amendments
The Korea Fair Trade Commission landmark report raises concerns about Big Tech partnerships in AI, including Microsoft’s hiring of Inflection employees in March this year.
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AI startups want to be protected by regulation, but also against overregulation: observations on a16z-Microsoft statement
A joint statement by venture investors Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and President Brad Smith
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Hungarian competition authority GVH sees huge opportunities in AI, raises concerns over lack of support of “minor” languages
The Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) has published a report on AI that takes a rather positive view of the opportunities created by AI, but raises concerns about the lack of support of languages spoken by smaller numbers of people.
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Every AI partnership is a merger now: UK CMA investigating last year’s Google-Anthropic deal
The UK Competition & Markets Authority has launched a Phase 1 merger inquiry into last year’s deal between Google and Anthropic.
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UK CMA clears third AI partnership analyzed as ‘merger’: Amazon-Anthropic (previously Microsoft-Inflection, Microsoft-Mistral)
A little over five months after launching three AI-related “merger” investigations of commercial partnerships, the CMA has concluded the last one without proceeding to an in-depth investigation. Still, the basis was structurally different in each case.
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Microsoft filing with UK CMA suggests Amazon and Google spend money on regulatory lobbying rather than software license fees
The software licensing-related part of the UK CMA’s cloud market investigation appears to lack a numerical basis to prove adverse effects on competition.
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U.S., EU and UK antitrust enforcers issue joint statement underscoring their focus on Generative AI matters
The two U.S. antitrust agencies (DOJ and FTC) have signed a joint statement with the European Commission and the UK Competition & Markets Authority that stresses the importance of competition enforcement in connection with Generative AI.
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Google to UK CMA: “AI … not yet an important consideration for customers’ choice of cloud providers”
Google’s cloud computing division tells the UK CMA that “the impact of AI on the overall UK public cloud infrastructure market remains uncertain.”
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UK CMA influenced heavily by Amazon, Google in software licensing part of cloud services market investigation
The UK Competition & Market Authority mentioned AI in connection with its cloud services market investigation, but the focus is drifting in all sorts of different directions.
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UK CMA cloud market investigation touches on AI-related trends, but prioritizes discounts, committed spend agreements, egress fees
The UK Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) released several updated documents last week concerning the state of play in its cloud service market investigation.